I've noticed this issue a few times, but this is the first time I've definitively determined what the issue is, but it is definitively a bug:

If you are entered into multiple giveaways for the same game, and have the giveaways open at the same time in separate tabs, and remove your entries from them in short succession by Ctrl+Tabbing through the giveaways and clicking the 'Remove Entry' button, all entries will be removed, but your point balance will only be credited with the point value of one of the giveaways.

As the example which definitively proved it was an issue, I was recently entered into multiple Talisman giveaways, before I decided to purchase the Humble Bundle containing it. When I purchased the bundle, rather than wait for the Entered Games list to load, I simply performed a search for Talisman, opened all the GAs I was entered into in new tabs, and Ctrl+Tabbed between them, removing my entries as I went along. However, despite removing my entries from four separate giveaways, my point balance only increased by 15P—the value of a single giveaway.

My assumption is that the AJAX handler does not check for the giveaway code when entries are removed, and so when it receives multiple requests in short succession, it assumes those received after the first are erratic and discards them. I've tested it the other way—ie, entering giveaways in short succession—and it does not seem to be an issue there, which would be a more serious and exploitable issue. However, the presence of the bug in removing entries could still possibly be concerning from a security perspective, and is certainly a bug in need of patching regardless.

Hopefully this issue will be reviewed and patched soon.

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their is a way to enter in many ga and spending less point but it'snt working all the time, you need to do the same thing about that thing, except that you need to enter them

9 years ago
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who cares?

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Well, maybe it's just the programmer in me, but I certainly care about bugs in software. Sure this one in particular doesn't really matter in the end—provided it's not indicative of more serious problems—but surely when a bug is found, even a minor one, it's better to fix it than to let it linger, no?

I dunno. As I say, maybe I'm just extra-sensitive to these sorts of things because I myself program, but it's the sort of thing I'd want to stamp out of my own work, so I figured I'd bring it to the attention of the administration.

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